Here’s a challenge for you if you have a few spare minutes this evening: Try to figure out how much money is going to public schools in your city and what it’s being spent on. If you’re an average parent or taxpayer, you’re not going to figure it out.

So writes Michelle Rhee in an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle. She continues, “Educators ought to clamor for the data that show whether school funding is being spent in ways that help students succeed. Parents ought to demand it.”